The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-11-19
ENGLAND WILD ON SULLIVAN
The Boston Bruiser Creates Even q
Greater Sensation than Buffalo Bill.
The Big Ruffian Is Talked About All Over the
Tight Little Island. and His Prowess In
spires Reverential Admiration.

sullivan, VINO came 10 tnlS country a great
man, has been growing steadily greater every
day. Now. in tie estimation of millions in
England, who think boxing the most beautiful
of earthly institutions, really is great but
he. The Prince of Wales, the Sultan of Moroc-
co and General Boulanger are not in it. Two
weeks ago Birmingham began talking of the
man with the powerful left and the DISASTROUS
right, whose specially was the knocking out of
champions, and since his arrival this has grown
into frenzy OF reverential worship. He has
boxed twice, and 20, 900 men have been to see
him, nearly all of whom were workingmen. each
paying one or more days wages for
the privilege OF an evenings study with
the great master of slugeing He has
done nothing but exhibit his pink
body and knock about with his big
padded fists Jack Ashton and ALT Greenfield.
To the Birmingham iron-workers good boxing ID
q mans greatest achievement, and Sullivan Is
the Michael Angelo OF the art. VINO exhibits all
It's beauties in four rounds of just twelve min
utes- Fancy how long haired students in velvet
jackets would rush for tickets il Raphael could
come back, hire hall and paint his Sistine
madonna" under their eyes, and you get an
idea of the rush there has been to see Sullivan
here. He has been compelled to move secretly
from one hotel to another less known. and to
make secret of his whereabouts He is fol-
lowed &C the streets, raced after by cheering
crowds when he drives, until it really seems as
though h3k the male pOpuiatlO0 OF the place
had abandoned all other occupation and enrolled
themselves upon a huge impromptu reception
committee. To-day Sullivan is resting, and
eloating over various facts, occasionally inter
rupting his gloatng to make speech,
and try to persuade his admirers
to go away. Speech-making is quite
natural to him. and he no longer confines him
self to the words Gentlemen, very thankful to
one and all, ETC." His Grating vocabulary
amounts now to nearly 500 words, and his sue
has been great that on his return home,
To- hon and bo Of Soin Al oof
prize-fRhters, he may be expected to enter the
great foggy field of politics. The facts
which Sullivan does the gloating alluded to
above are these: He has been received at the
railroad stations at Liverpool, London. Birming
ham and everywhere else, by bigger crowds and
more enthusiastic ones than did any man who
ever came TO this country, without exception.
He has stirred more real enthusiasm in five
minutes with his fists than the Queens jubilee,
backed by all the homo and foreign ROYALTIES,
could do In an entire summer. The English
newspapers have printed more abont MIN
in two weeks than they have about
all the fighters put together in two
years. and they have compared him with
every great man. from Achilles down to Glad
stone, usually giving him preference. His pict-
IRE. the swallow-tail coat one, keeps company
In all the shops with the Princess of Wales. the
measlesstrieken Princesses. and other great
of the earth Everyone who has seen him
has bowed down. No one has dared to criticise
the title OF marvel" conferred upon him. He
is Endorsed by everyone, and whoever wishes ex-
travagantly to praise his right finds nothing
fitting to say as that it is as good as the left
Buffalo Bill that other lion from the States, is
fast being ousted, and the green of envy made
his eyes emeralds as he sat last night and
watched his great compatriot stir up frenzy
that all his buffaloes and Indians could never
hope TO produce. Sulllyan's friends as happy
as he Is, for am bition has fired him, and he does
not drink-has not done at ALL yet treats
prominent local men, who come In swarms, with
a kind condescension that is very ben
efclal to the gate receipts, and while
preserving the immaculate polish OF his own tall
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credited for running the tall hats of others. All
the other little boxing affairs have sunk to moth
ineness. Kilrain is almost forgotten, and Smith
shines only as man who comes next to the
great one. Mitchell with q persistency that
may end in his getting knocked out. continues
to challenge, and begs Sullivan to deposit f200
demons trations are unheeded the noisy
barking aroused in a four pound cur by the pass
ing of elephant through his street. Sullivan
is the elephant and all England his circus. Pony
Moore has bet f400 on Kilrain against f400 with
r. Cooper Nottingham sport. about the result
of the coming fight in Spain, which proves, in
Sullivan down. that Pony is destined to be
worth f400 less.
Wales Must Wait SuIIivan's Convenience.
Gable Special to New York Sun.
John L. Sullivan is still here, and sporting
Birmingham continues to be proud, enthusiastic
and happy. Special policemen selected to
handle the crowds his name attracts,
and the evidences OF greatness accumu-
late around him. From the English
point of view he has now reached the
top OF the ladder of fame for the news has come
that the Prince of Wales wants to see him. The
fact will afford satisfaction to every spor ring
man, from the humblest to the greatest but
what thrills of pride will not aeitate the world
of sport at the news that Sullivan has shown
himself less anxious TO see the Prince of Wales
than the Prince is to see him. Mary Anderson
and another American girl won fame by provin
that they were not particularly delighted by be-
ing noticed by man who is going to be king
but now the chamnion of all eluggers entirely
sclipses them by taking the Princes admiration
as quite a matter of course and treating the
Prince as an ordinary citizen
The Princes intention of meeting Sullivan
was communicated through Pat Mullins gentle
man who built his reputation u p by winning six
ring battles, and who has now grown thick
wasted and comfortable teaching aristocratic
gentlemen how to punch each others noses.
One OF these friends OF the Prince told Mullins
Of his royal friend S desire to the champion
or the world at his trade, and Mullins wrote in
great agitation to Sullivans hacker, Philips,
that the thing must be done within a week or
two. The letter was read to Sullivan, and that
great man said calmly:
Write to the Prince of Wales and tell him
I'm too busy to see him until after the Goth. but
let him hold on till then and I'll show him some
thing that he never knew any thing about be-
fore"
OF course. this expression of the high and
great fighter did not reach the Prince, but, in
stead of it, a note went to Mullins from Sulli-
vans manager. saying how blissful the great
fighter had been made by the condesceusion of
the other great man. and that he would be glad
TO appear before him after Now 26 The
exhibition will probably be given in some club.
house, before a few of the Princes intimate
friends Sullivan will knock Jack Ashton about |
TO give the Prince insight of how easily he
could obliterate his Royal Highness, but Null |
Inns will second Ashton, Holske will second Sui
Ivan, and, if the Prince has any appreciation of
good thing, his well-known admiration for |
Americans in general will be accentuated with a |
touch of awe for the Bostonians. Sullivan is |
not invited as a boxer, for no fighter was ever /
asked to appear before the Prince, but as the |
man who stands all by himself in the world, and /
who can, without any trouble. knock down any |
me who ever tries to stand beside him.
HAVING THEIR COFFINS MADE
The Gorgeous Affairs That DIR. Hitler and His /